15 years ago to the date, my first big musical project was launched into orbit. I wrote the material for the Neo-Opera “Diablo” in 1992, when I was studying and living in Paris. The city constantly fed me with inspiration and it had to be channelled somewhere. Being a typical child of the eighties, I had been playing Marillion’s Misplaced Childhood album to the point of it physically breaking. It gave me the idea to do a concept album, moulding together the best songs I had been writing in my teens and weave them into one coherent story. Musically Diablo became a crossover between 80s pop and Bach. The lyrics had the structure of a classical Greek tragedy: 5 acts and a leading lady called Helen. The album got picked up by some of Holland’s national musical heroes including Musical director Eddy Habbema, who loved my voice and guitar work and invited me to his offices to discuss a co-operation. It inspired me and my best friend designer Jean-Paul Mulder to make a theatrical production out of it, that was subsequently discussed with the Japanese NHK broadcasting company. Eventually Sony Music offered to release one of the album tracks “Helen” as a standalone single in the Netherlands which I stubbornly refused (and regret to this day). Everything was still very much all or nothing for me in those days.

Today looking back at this project drenches me in muscial memories. This morning, for the first time in what is probably over 10 years, I listened to Diablo again. It’s 15 years old and sounds crappy as hell, but the words and the music still do it for me today.

		Haunting me Down | Single | expected From the upcoming movie 'The Stone' lyrics
		Kill my Darlings | Single | expected Title song of the upcoming Social Networking Horror Movie 'Back Slashers' lyrics
		Book of Souls | Single | June 2010 The song "Book of Souls" is inspired by the book of the same name by American author Glenn Cooper. Glenn had his debut on the world stage of writing with the publishing of his first book Library of the Dead (Secret of the Seventh Son) which became a bestseller almost overnight. Book of Souls is a great sequel to that great book. The song deals with the fact that you start looking at things from a different angle when it appears they were predestined. lyrics
		Love | Single | April 2010 Love is an intense song about attraction and seduction in a relation that can't be. A story about longing and giving yourself to someone else even though you know it's not right. Love is a meticulously carved and atmosperic sketch of the forbidden desires that live deep inside everyone. lyrics
		Cam Girl | Single | January 2010 Title song of the Film-Noir movie Cam Girl by Philip Gardiner and John Symes featuring glamour model and actress Layla Randle-Conde. lyrics
		The Masonic Magician | Single | December 2009 The inspiration for the fourth song in the Mystery Pop series comes from the book The Masonic Magician co-written by British bestselling authors Philippa Faulks and Robert L.D. Cooper who is a British historian and curator of the Grand Lodge of Scotland Museum and Library. The song deals with the life and death of the illustrious 18th century adventurer Count Allesandro Cagliostro. He was a cult figure of European society in the tumultuous years leading to the French Revolution as well as an alchemist, healer and Freemason. The song is written from Cagliostro's perspective as he was awaiting his death sentence in an Italian prison. lyrics
		The Bond Code | Single | October 2009 Third song in the Mystery Pop project. Inspired by Philip Gardiner's bestselling book The Bond Code. The book deals with legendary creator of James Bond, British intelligence officer and author Ian Fleming, who discovered the ancient concepts of Gnosis through the works of Carl Jung and worked the ideas into his books. In his song, Corjan gets into Fleming's head and sketches how Fleming lost himself in the character he created and who was everything he ever wanted to be. In Gardiner's own words: "Corjan has written the most amazing Bond song - basically the one they should have used on Quantum of Solace. Brought a tear to my eye" lyrics
		City of Secrets (the Grail in you) | Single | September 2009 Second song in the Mystery Pop project. When Patrice Chaplin's book City of Secrets was published in 2004, it caused quite a stir. The book basically recounts how a young woman gets involved with the keeper of the Grail in the Spanish city of Gerona. The book, which is an autobiographical account, is beautifully written and has many touchpoints with the mysteries that are so dear to me. In this song Corjan zooms in on the impossible romance between Patrice and Josep Tarres, the keeper of the Grail. "Evocative and memorable!" Patrice Chaplin lyrics
		The Book of Love | Single | September 2009 First song in the Mystery Pop project. After the New York Times bestselling novel The Book of Love by American author Kathleen McGowan. The song The Book of Love is about Love with a capital L. It tells of Mary-Magdalene, the woman who fell in love with the Man who knew he wouldn’t get very old and intended to die for the salvation of everybody else. lyrics
		Thief | Single | June 2009 Thief was Corjan's first English single. It is a love story told in sharply carved methaphors. Thief was previously released as a bonus-track on Corjan's first full lenghth (and Dutch language) album "Scènes". lyrics
		Scènes | Album | May 2009 Corjan's first full lenght album in the Dutch language. It's pretty much a concept album consisting of 14 songs about relations, how they start, how they end and everything that's in between. lyrics
		Dief | USB-Single | September 2005 Dief was the first single ever to be released on a USB Stick: the USB Single. It earned Corjan a recording contract and a place in the Dutch music scene. lyrics

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